![]() Meanwhile, Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a scene stealer as Squirm-inducing in some scenes, especially for female viewers – make you McGregor’s Black Mask is enjoyably over the top, until his snaps of malice – The actors go all-in with their characters. Just told from Harley Quinn’s hyper, unbalanced perspective, which actually The onscreen Birds of Prey IS Birds of Prey. Even the character line-up felt more like an attempt to cash in on Harley Quinn’s popularity than strive for any fidelity to the source material. Pre-release, the film Birds of Prey seemed too tonally removed from what I expected an adaptation of the comic to be like. At least in the first trailer, Birds of Prey looked like one of those manic big-screen efforts where the cast is having more fun than the audience, and the latter is expected to get swept up in the energy. In the lead-up to the film’s release, I wasn’t sold. ![]() Birds of Prey is a high-energy, unquestionably R-rated romp that combines crunchy, satisfying violence with flashes of sparkly golden heart shining through. Even if you didn’t absolutely hate Suicide Squad (I personally didn’t), you had to admit it was a hot mess.įour years later, though, an apparent second attempt at edgy imitation has produced far better results, and we have a legit “DC Deadpool movie” in the form of Suicide Squad’s spin-off-sequel-thingie, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). ![]() Remember when Suicide Squad came out and it felt like Warner Bros’ clumsy “late to the party” attempt to replicate the successful Guardians of the Galaxy formula? Tonally disjointed scene jumps as a result of reshoots.
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